Tregea Terrace, Portreath - 14 February 2017

A visit to Portreath was deeply fascinating as much for what used to be there as what is there now. The Portreath Incline (to the extreme left in this picture) was the arrival route for the Portreath branch of the Hayle Railway which opened in 1837. A beautiful bridge (out of shot, left) carried the railway over Glenfeadon Terrace a little short of the end of the line. A photograph from the early 20th century shows the railway which closed in the 1930s and was lifted completely in 1945 and buildings to the west (right) of it on Tregea Terrace which stand to this day with only modest alterations as evidenced here. My surreptitious peek into the past was made all the more poignant by the sign on the cabin proclaiming the arrival of superfast fibre broadband.

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